Ham and Swiss Egg Breakfast Calzones are the perfect size breakfast to share. Even breakfast for dinner with a side salad. We are loving the GMG Pizza Oven. Patti wants a calzone every week now so I keep making them for her. Each one different than the last. The perfect marriage of eggs, ham, mushrooms and swiss cheese. Plus, fun to do together! Calzones…
Smoked Corned Beef, and Smoked Corned Beef is Pastrami!!! Patti found corned beef on sale for $1.69 a pound. To say the least she bought a load of them for the freezer. So, we are going to enjoy smoking them for awhile. This is the first one we have ever smoked and it was fantastic. We also cored a head of cabbage and stuffed…
Sweet & Savory Pork Sirloin Chops! We love pork chops and Patti found these beauties on sale. Just doesn’t get any better than that. These 2-inch chops were very tender, juicy and kissed with a raspberry sauce and a hint of smoke. Cooked on our gas grill with a Wedgie for that “Kiss of Smoke”. Patti and I have set one night a week…
Smoked Corned Beef is Pastrami… and we love Pastrami!!! With St. Paddy’s day coming we have been getting a lot of questions about smoking corned beef. When you smoke corned beef you make Pastrami. We have 3 or 4 recipes posted now for corned beef but I wanted to do a Heavily Peppered Pastrami. Patti and I worked a nice pepper rub and smoked our…
Sausage Egg Breakfast Calzones, the perfect size to share. Ken made a special calzone for Patti and her friend Harriett to share. Yummy for the girls. And easy for Ken to do in our new Green Mountain Pizza Oven. Super easy. The perfect marriage of eggs, sausage and cheese. Plus, fun to do together. Calzones are like inside out pizzas, you can stuff them full…
Peach Bread Pudding with Coffee Glaze, with all the delightfully spicy foods we are having for Memorial Day, Patti wanted a light and sweet dessert to finish off our dinner. We had some beautiful frozen peaches leftover from our last year’s bounty from the Murrieta Farmer’s Market to add a fresh sweetness. Patti poured on a glaze with coffee liqueur, but you can substitute coffee…
His & Hers Prime Rib in the GMG Pizza Oven! We had a 2-bone prime rib roast and both wanted our prime rib different. So, I cut it into 2 Big Steaks. Patti wanted hers with our “Date Night Steak Rub” and I wanted a thick blackened pepper crust. For a good crust I needed to do the steaks on a griddle. So, I…
Patti and I always make our Date Night dinner something special. When Patti brought home these 2 inch Rib Eyes I thought these fit the bill perfectly for a reverse sear. The reverse sear/cold smoke method allows for a much deeper smoke flavor on meat, chicken, fish, seafood, game and cheese without actually cooking the food before grilling. So, I used the probe on the…
Awesome Date Night Sirloin. Been a long week this week and we were really looking forward to a nice quite evening. Patti got nice 2 inch sirloin for the grill then whipped up some garlic mashed potatoes and a batch of skillet biscuits for us. A very nice evening indeed… I did a reverse sear smoking the meat until I had an internal temperature of…
Review of the WPPO Lil Luigi Table Top Wood / Charcoal Fired Pizza Oven on Date Night Doins BBQ For Two. We have heard so much about the “WPPO” we thought we would take a hard look at one. Here is what we found… The “WPPO” (Wood Pellet Pizza Oven) is a portable pizza oven that burns wood pellets. You can add a few…
BBQ Cajun Brats, I enjoy making sausages and playing with all the flavor profiles that match my taste. I am working on a “Zippy” brat that I will keep on hand just for snacks. This is a good one, with a little sweet heat using Grandville's Cajun Kick Gourmet BBQ Jam. At this point Patti won’t even taste any of my brats, I guess that…
The PelletCan, those of you that follow our grilling you must know by now that “We are Pelletheads”. I have been a Chef for 4 major pellet grill manufactures progressively upgrading until I believe that I am at the Top of the Pellet Grill Chain, but that is not what I want to talk about here. I want to talk about wood pellets, specifically…